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Justin W

@uhhjustinwagner.bsky.social
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Nerd with can't-shut-up disease | He/him | Bylines in PC Gamer and Gamesradar | Opinions are the result of whatever's wrong with me | Pay me to ramble: justinlawrencewagner@gmail.com

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Justin W @uhhjustinwagner.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"DotA's designs all came from Warcraft, and its successors haven't been able to fully get away from that. Sure, Dota 2’s Disruptor has a unique backstory, and he’s an oglodi rather than an orc, but no amount of reverse-engineering will erase the truth from my memory: he is Thrall, but red."
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Deadlock is the king of MOBA character designs, and it's all thanks to Valve's embrace of New Yorkyness
I want to be a part of it…
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ceej @ceej.online · 29/09/2026
emulsions… very “enemies-to-lovers”
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beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Three panel comic. Panel 1: two heavyset fellas sit around an unusual, scrawny humanoid alien at a diner counter. One of the guys pushes a little basket of bread in front of the alien and says, “this here is corn bread.” Panel 2: the alien takes a small bite of the golden corn bread. The alien says, “con… bred.” Panel 3: the alien begins to hover, emitting an otherworldly light and causing gravity to shift around its immediate vicinity. A frightened waitress behind the bar shouts, “what’s happening?!”
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Justin W @uhhjustinwagner.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Summoning all Infection enjoyers
static.klipy.com
Saruman Calling: Tell Me More
Alt: Saruman with the palantir
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Justin W @uhhjustinwagner.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Deadlock's latest art pass fucking rules
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videogame history @vghistory.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
pac-man characters and logo style guide, excerpt (1992) archive.org/details/pacm...
text:
to ensure consistency of the use of these characters, please follow the guidelines in this manual.
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1. when using the pac-man family characters, do not make any connotation with sex, violence , or illegal drugs.
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Justin W @uhhjustinwagner.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Whip it! Into shape!
World of Warcraft 
Dawn of War II
Shenmue 
Team Fortress 2
SSX 3 (Snowboard Supercross) 
Contra Hard Corps 
Super Smash Bros. Brawl
Battlerite
CTR: Crash Team Racing
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WumpaGem @wumpagem.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Fine, I'll do it myself.
backloggd.com
'Game Recomps That Aren't Vibe-Coded' a list of games by WumpaGem | Backloggd
With the sheer abundance of game recompilations built with generative AI tools getting unwarranted attention from clickbait news outlets I felt we need some kind of curated database of recompilations ...
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actual heathcliff comics @realheathcliffs.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
09 Sep 2026
Heathcliff paints a coat of a clear liquid onto his ham car, which glistens in the sunlight. Grandpa Nutmeg and a neighbor watch, and Grandpa says "He's glazing the ham car."
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videogame history @vghistory.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
n-gage, mobile console, print ad (2003) archive.org/details/Comp...
a picture of the n-gage is shown, silver(?) buttons on the right and left, round knob on the left, screen in the middle, wide, curved edges.
prominent text above, white on black:
are you ready to humiliate your best friend in a public place?
smaller text below image:
are you ready to n-gage?
preorder the revolution in wireless multiplayer gameplay in-store or online.
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Justin W @uhhjustinwagner.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Excited to finally do my due diligence as a Red Rescue Team enjoyer
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beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Two panel comic. Panel 1: a whale fall lies at the bottom of the ocean. The bones are covered in a variety of bottom feeders and ocean critters. Panel 2: closer up, the group of bottom feeders are holding red solo cups and chatting with each other. Among the group is a tiger prawn, who thinks to himself, “I needed this…”
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actual heathcliff comics @realheathcliffs.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
06 Sep 2026
Heathcliff leaves the Gum Store with a comically large piece of gum, which he chews and inflates into a larger and larger bubble. The gum balloon lifts him into the air and he flies away into the city on the now hot air balloon sized gum bubble. Iggy and an employee from the gum store watch him go, and the employee says "That's the long-range gum."

The Kitty Korner reads "Jonathan Ripley of Dallas, TX, says his cat 'Harry' loves to look you dead in the eye when he's knocking anything off the counter, then sprints away!"
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Hourly Videogame Box Art @vgboxart.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
BALLZ 3D
BALLZ 3D
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ILLBRAD 🔞 @blasternation.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
CHANGE MY PIK UP SMACK MY BULB ORP
Edited screenshot of red Pikmin but with the Prodigy: The Fat of the Land album logo on it.
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Justin W @uhhjustinwagner.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Reason to stay alive #53: There are Mike Ploog drawings I have not seen yet
Werewolf by Night, #3Werewolf by Night, #3
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Justin W @uhhjustinwagner.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Roleplayer who gets pulled over for being too in-character to drive: Is there a problem artificer
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Justin W @uhhjustinwagner.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
www.pcgamer.com/games/the-in...
pcgamer.com
The Internet Archive has preserved 758 old PC Gamer demo discs you can download and play
Dive into a treasure trove of throwbacks and previews.
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Justin W @uhhjustinwagner.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
You can take the boy out the country… (wrong state tho)
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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
A man says "yeah, you're right, it's just lazy. He says "that's the brilliance of the comic, you can read the panels in any order." Another man says "these panels are not in the proper order." He then say "no, you can't..."
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Justin W @uhhjustinwagner.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
What’s Heathcliff’s thing with helmets. Where does he keep them all
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Justin W @uhhjustinwagner.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
“It's a high-pitched sound Hot rubber eternally pressing against a blackened pavement A wheel is forever A car is infinity times four”
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jade's gallery @gallery.oat.zone · 02/09/2026
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actual heathcliff comics @realheathcliffs.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
01 Sep 2026
Heathcliff walks down the street waving a white flag that reads "MEH" in large red letters. A man on a bench looks at the flag and says "I need one of those."
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videogame history @vghistory.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
the sims: hot date, magazine screenshot, pc (2002) archive.org/details/PCG....
a room inside a house is on raging fire as a firefighter tries to put it out. outside, on tiles, someone wearing white is playing a pinball machine. beond this is a picket fence and green grass. isometric view.
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Justin W @uhhjustinwagner.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Every single DLSS 5 image fills me with a sense of impending doom
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Quest 64 Official @quest64official.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Peggy to Hank Hill
"I married a man Hank, not a GAMER"
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Justin W @uhhjustinwagner.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
This 108-Minute 10/10 Edge-Of-Your-Seat Bill Murray Sequel To A 9/10 105-Minute Bill Murray Comedy Changed the Lives of Slimer Fans Everywhere With One Single 10/10 Character And His Name Is In This Article
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videogame history @vghistory.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
bubsy 3d, pre-release, official website (1996) the sega saturn version of bubsy 3d was cancelled. web.archive.org/web/19961023... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubsy_3D
white website. bubsy 3d title font.
text below, red, caps: hightail it into a new dimension!
below, a render of bubsy, spinning a red sphere with rings around it on his finger. to the right, an in game screenshot.
text below:
coming this holiday season for the playstation
coming spring 97 for the segasaturn
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Justin W @uhhjustinwagner.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Anyone know what Robert E. Howard’s thing with tigers is
Various passages from The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian, all of which include a simile or metaphor involving tigers
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Jeff Grubb @grubb.wtf · 27/08/2026
Every single time in my life that I heard Peter Cullen speak, I said "hell yeah"
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videogame history @vghistory.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
nec powerplayer, gaming pc, print ad, imagery (1997) archive.org/details/boot...
a metallic armoured or robot hand is holding a hard wooden mallet, facing toward you. it has a band of spikes around it.
text:
for a free demonstration of our 3-d gaming experience, slam this magazine into your face.
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Justin W @uhhjustinwagner.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Gotta make room for a Clue / Best Little Whorehouse double feature one of these days
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Justin W @uhhjustinwagner.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
There is no sight on earth more joyful than that fuckass harvest moon cow
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Justin W @uhhjustinwagner.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
The little giggle skeletons do in EverQuest makes me laugh everytime
youtu.be
EverQuest - The Ding
YouTube video by JP
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beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Three panel comic. Panel 1: people standing at the barrier for a race track, watching as the cars race around the bend toward them. A man says, “here he comes… MACH 5 MONKEY!” Panel 2: in a split second moment which feels like an eternity, Mach 5 Monkey (a mandrill wearing sunglasses, steering the car with his foot) passes by and glances over his shades at an attractive young woman in the crowd. Panel 3: as the cars veer away, kicking up wind and dust, the crowd goes bananas. The young woman blushes and thinks, “he looked at me…”
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Justin W @uhhjustinwagner.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
My take on this show is that to riff on something, you need a relatively fresh target that's actually in the zeitgeist. How many people who like the Critical Role cartoon or other silly fantasy shows even gaf about coin-op beat em ups? If you have to explain the joke to make the joke, why bother
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Justin W @uhhjustinwagner.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
The guinea pigs do not care for The Prodigy's "The Fat of the Land"
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Justin W @uhhjustinwagner.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
It’s time for the Kiln renaissance
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Justin W @uhhjustinwagner.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2004
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Jeff Grubb @grubb.wtf · 20/08/2026
For as much as Valnet is fucking up everything, I want to match that energy with some thank god Kotaku is still Kotaku. Just sharp blogs about stuff that is actually worth thinking about.
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Justin W @uhhjustinwagner.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
I get why they can’t call it Ninja Baseball Batman anymore. But it would be fun if they could call it Ninja Baseball Batman.
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United Videogame Workers-CWA @videogameworkers.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
WE ARE FUCKING UNDER ATTACK (scabby the rat's version)
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Justin W @uhhjustinwagner.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
I don’t recommend watching Inland Empire for the first time by starting it at 11 p.m.
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Justin W @uhhjustinwagner.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
It's a pre-WoW style MMO (FF11) NBA Jam gameplay (Mario Hoops 3-on-3, counts because Moogles are in it and 3+3=6) Game makes one zillion dollars, the medium is saved
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Justin W @uhhjustinwagner.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
my other post broke but basically this article is good and everquest legends is also good www.pcgamer.com/games/mmo/ev...
pcgamer.com
EverQuest Legends is the only MMO that could hook me in 2026
Admittedly, I am a very specific type of guy.
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DOKI DOKI CRT PIXEL @crtpixel.bsky.social · 15/03/2024
EXCITEBIKE 64 LEFT FIELD PRODUCTIONS 2000 N64
Two motorcycle racers leaping on a forest track
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Justin W @uhhjustinwagner.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Mike Shinoda playing Blinx the Time Sweeper: Time is a valuable thing
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Justin W @uhhjustinwagner.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Pulitzer here I come
Comment: This article is flawed. The author is assuming that they will be eating 28 Costco Hotdogs all at once. For a fair comparison, they should assume that they are consuming the hot dogs over a similar length of time it would take to complete BG3. And I mean real-time, not playtime, so factoring in breaks and the like. A period of several weeks/months rather than the 100+ hours it would take to beat BG3 if you were doing so non-stop. Though since hotdogs, being food, are perishable and BG3 is not, I would recommend that we assume that each hot dog is purchased right before consumption, and not save them over and eat one many months later.

I am disappointed in the poor journalistic standards presented by Mr Wagner and, by extension, PC Gamer, and would strongly recommend a follow up article of Mr Wagner's experience of consuming 28 Costco hot dogs over a period of months. Say, one per week for seven months. Each one purchased fresh, of course.

I look forward to reading this piece in around March of 2027.
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